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Partisan gerrymandering, the origin story

February 6th, 2018, 7:31am by Sam Wang

Where did this decade’s festival of partisan gerrymandering come from? Dave Daley dives into a trove of documents by Thomas Hofeller and other architects of the grand plan to make hundreds of Congressional and legislative seats uncompetitive after the 2010 Census.

Suppose Republican gerrymanderers are really successful in packing Democrats in just a few “safe” districts, and also cracking the Republicans into districts that are just barely Republican. This gives the Republicans an advantage. But when the party climate shifts toward Democrats, a lot of those carefully crafted Republican districts will become toss-ups or even lean Democratic. (Mutatis mutandis for Democratic legislatures’ gerrymanders.)
Interesting to watch it play out.https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/politics/2018-state-of-play-analysis/index.html